 THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.  The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ... - Pàgina xxviiiper Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 300 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pàgines
...that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend the matter). ' A book may be amusing with ' numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single ' absurdity.' He rested, with well grounded faith, on the vital reality of his characters. It is wonderful with what... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pàgines
...that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend the matter). ' A book may be amusing with ' numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single ' absurdity.' He rested, with well grounded faith, on the vital reality of his characters. It is wonderful with what... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pàgines
...GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties, but it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth : he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pàgines
...see published. ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are au hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred tiiings might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pàgines
...see published. ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pàgines
...GARDEN. MDCCCLIV. '; ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth : he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pàgines
...that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend the matter.) " A book may be amusing with " numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single " absurdity." He rested, with well grounded faith, on the 1766. vital reality of his characters. It is wonderful... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pàgines
...that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend the matter.) " A book may be amusing with " numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single * I must always regard it as extraordinary, in such men, how much both Fielding and Smollett resorted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 238 pàgines
...B. OLAT, PRINT ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 540 pàgines
...as are learning our language.] There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....piece unites in himself the three greatest characters on earth : he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach... | |
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